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A secret tunnel in a NYC synagogue leads to a brawl between police and worshippers
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Is anyone here in or familiar with NYC? Going on a trip and have zero idea what to do as a non-tourist...
I'm spending 5 days in NYC starting next week. While I've traveled plenty, it's almost always been alone, frequently short term (2-3 days including flights in and out), and work related so I had...
I'm spending 5 days in NYC starting next week. While I've traveled plenty, it's almost always been alone, frequently short term (2-3 days including flights in and out), and work related so I had people to either ask for suggestions or just went out on my own. If the trip didn't fit into the above categories it was typically to somewhere I'm relatively familiar with or had a lot of lead time to prepare my trip.
That is not the case right now. I've never had any interest in NYC so I don't have a list of places I'd like to experience in my head, I don't have a ton of time to research a plan and filter out all the "top 10 things to do in NYC" websites, I'll be with my wife so going off wandering on my own isn't an option, and this will be the first trip where I don't have a rental car to just go get lost in and see where my randomness takes me. I'm also not the tourist type so there's no interest in "the tree" or Times Square, etc.
So I beseech you fellow Tilderinos, as someone that doesn't care about being a tourist, doesn't have a social media presence to feed I'm-here-and-you're-not selfies to, and needs actual destinations to go to due to a lack of independent mobility, what should someone with pretty much 72 hours of completely free time in NYC actually do?
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Cynthia Nixon announces she will run openly as a socialist
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Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions
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New York City is cleared for first-in-US congestion tolls as soon as April
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How neighbors got NYPD to stop parking on a school sidewalk after forty years
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You may soon have to pay more to drive that SUV in New York
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Cal-Mex is having a moment in New York. But how does it taste?
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No one's names were changed at Ellis Island
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NYC homeowner costs are rising at three times the inflation rate
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'If you eat here, you're dining with rats'
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Andrew Yang is running for Mayor of New York City
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Trip suggestions for a week in New York?
I’m going for a week in October with the whole family, so wife and kids aged 11 and 15. So far we are planning on seeing some shows off Broadway, doing most of the typical tourist things like...
I’m going for a week in October with the whole family, so wife and kids aged 11 and 15. So far we are planning on seeing some shows off Broadway, doing most of the typical tourist things like Central Park, Governor’s island, Times Square, the museums. We’re going to be staying in Hell’s Kitchen at a hotel. Anything off the beaten path that’s worth checking out?
Edit: OMG the floods, what have I got myself into?
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/29/nyregion/nyc-rain-flash-flooding
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Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins
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New Jersey files federal lawsuit to block NYC’s congestion pricing plan; Staten Island sets up legal action
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NYR statement on Tom Wilson and the Department of Player Safety
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The invisible victims of American anti-semitism
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What's in the subway water that drips on your head? A semi-scientific inquiry.
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NYC MTA moves forward with plans to install platform doors in three subway stations
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Explosive device found near George Soros’s home in Westchester County
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Visiting New York City for the first time, advice and recommendations please!
Hey all, hope you're doing well today. I'm visiting NYC for the first time with my wife in January (she's been a couple of times already), and I would greatly appreciate any advice or...
Hey all, hope you're doing well today. I'm visiting NYC for the first time with my wife in January (she's been a couple of times already), and I would greatly appreciate any advice or recommendations you could offer! Of course I have to do the obligatory Broadway show and pizza, and I have this nifty little guidebook, and wow as I write this I am such a tourist.
Thanks!
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Restaurant advice Astoria, Queens, NYC
My wife and I will be traveling to NY in early April. I already have our "nice" dinners planned at Osteria 57 in Greenwich Village and Peak NYC at Hudson Yards. If, for some reason, I should...
My wife and I will be traveling to NY in early April. I already have our "nice" dinners planned at Osteria 57 in Greenwich Village and Peak NYC at Hudson Yards. If, for some reason, I should absolutely avoid these two places...please let me know.
We need to loosely plan dinner for the other two nights. These two nights shouldn't be as expensive as the two nights above :). Both of these nights we'd like to eat closer to Astoria, where we will be staying (roughly 28th and 38th). We'll be close to Richmond Hill one of these days, so would be open to eating down there as well before returning back to Astoria.
Could you suggest a great pizza place where we could sit down and have salad and pizza?
how about a traditional Indian restaurant? Not a fusion and not some place where someone tries to do something fancy. A place I can get Chicken Tikka Masala and my wife can find Chana Masala.
Some other place that isn't Indian or pizza, but is an absolute must in Astoria?
Thank you New Yorkers!
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My new apartment’s most aggravating feature (latch smart locks)
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Traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards for NYPD friends and family
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New Yorkers never came ‘flooding back.’ Why did rents go up so much?
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Researchers at Cornell University concluded that an online semester would result in more COVID-19
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The New York Public Library has calculated its most checked-out books of all time
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Netflix has signed a ten-year lease to keep Manhattan's single-screen Paris Theatre open, which it can use to satisfy the theatrical-release requirement of the Oscars
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Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles
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4.8 earthquake in central New Jersey; felt in Philadelphia, New York
Comment box Scope: personal anecdote Tone: neutral Opinion: yes? Sarcasm/humor: none I assume everyone in the New York/New Jersey/eastern PA/maybe northern Delaware area just felt their buildings...
Comment box
- Scope: personal anecdote
- Tone: neutral
- Opinion: yes?
- Sarcasm/humor: none
I assume everyone in the New York/New Jersey/eastern PA/maybe northern Delaware area just felt their buildings shaking.
That was a 4.8 magnitude earthquake originating near Lebanon, NJ (a ways west of Edison). You can look at the details from the US government's earthquake tracking website.
I've never felt an earthquake before, so that was something. I thought the people above me had turned on a motorcycle or something. I had no clue what could shake the building like that. Then it dawned on me. Not the place you expect these things. (I'm sure the Californians find this cute!)
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New York governor sends national guard to subway in crime crackdown
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In a 5-4 ruling, Supreme Court sides with religious groups in a dispute over Covid-19 restrictions in New York
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So I'm going to be in NYC with my mom for a week.
For my mom's 80'th birthday we're spending a week in the place she grew up: New York City. We're going to spend some time wandering her old neighborhood and seeing how it's changed, and we'll do...
For my mom's 80'th birthday we're spending a week in the place she grew up: New York City. We're going to spend some time wandering her old neighborhood and seeing how it's changed, and we'll do some of the touristy stuff since I haven't been to NYC since I was a kid. We have general plans about where we'll be, but a lot of open time to do whatever strikes us as cool.
Tildestrians, is there anything you think really shouldn't be missed? We're going to Coney Island and the Museum of Natural History for sure, but if there's anything you think is amazing I'd love to hear about it.
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New York judge orders cancellation of Donald Trump and family members business licenses in New York State
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Why is everything so ugly? The mid in fake midcentury modern
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Tiny electric trucks are coming to a bike lane near you
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New York midwife fined for giving 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines
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Why would Cynthia Nixon order lox on a cinnamon raisin bagel? We present six theories
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New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things
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How I eat for free in NYC using Python, automation, artificial intelligence, and Instagram
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Here is the actual petition filed by the NY AG against Trump, his children, and his organization
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A $48 billion debt is crushing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Paying it off could disrupt the future of New York City transit.
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I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything
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They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul (1990)
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The Ample Hills ice cream company had $19 million, a place on Oprah's favorite things list, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart.
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Young, progressive, DSA-backed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ousted ten-term incumbent in NY primary
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New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next.
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority rolls out more modern trains on New York City subway
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How a New York City restaurant loses money on a $14 sandwich
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